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New Delhi: A slight left from one of the busiest roads of New Delhi, right opposite the newly constructed Bharat Mandapam, takes you to a small yet buzzy Foreign Correspondents Club where journalist Nayanima Basu launched her book titled Fall of Kabul: Dispatches from Chaos..
In this book, Basu, who previously worked with ThePrint, has tried to bust myths around Taliban 2.0, emphasising the importance of reporting from the ground in journalism...
Basu was one of the few South Asian journalists to be present in Afghanistan at the exact time when the Taliban took over the country from vacating United States forces in August 2021..
Jayant Prasad, former Indian ambassador to Afghanistan and panellist at Basus book launch, corroborated her claims and led the audience into discussing how the international community reacted in these two weeks and what Indias approach was...
When she was leaving for Afghanistan from Delhi, the Indira Gandhi International Airport authorities could not fathom why someone would go to the troubled country at a time when even the US was withdrawing troops and the world was anxious about the Talibans comeback..
